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this honeypot story has generated some disgustingly racist and sexist discourse around asian women. we can’t even make fun of billionaires without being gross.
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I miss the reddit secret Santa :(
I was in it every year till the very end lol
here's a take that'll please no one: the belief that computers are difficult to use—especially foss and tools related to programming—is mostly constructed by politics and marketing, not by any inherent characteristics of the software. reasoning: (a) people master very complicated and user-hostile processes *all the time*. knitting, driving a car on the interstate, playing a musical instrument, being a baseball fan, using the subway—all just as complicated imo as (e.g.) learning the command line
@mastodonmigration The more the #DemSoc movement is kept out of the equation, the more bipolar the #duopoly will become.
@ModernMaslow Indeed. It is just the way politics work that there will be retribution for those who back the lower. If Schumer wins we will see progressives frozen out, and if Van Hollen wins we will see progressives elevated to key committee leadership positions. Winning this battle is crucial!
Let Over Lambda—50 Years of Lisp by Doug Hoyte, the book on macros and advanced Common Lisp inspired by On Lisp, is now free to read and download.
I'll change decide()'s signature to fn decide(request: Request) -> Result[Decision, Report], where Decision on the Rust side is:
pub enum SomeName {
Passthrough(String),
Garbage(String),
}
I "just" have to find a good Rust-side unhinged name for SomeName, Passthrough, and Garbage. I'm currently thinking:
pub struct Politics {
Anarchism(String),
Populist(String),
}
Where Politics::Populist would be Garbage, of course.
The reason I want a type here, is because I've relied on convention before: if decide() returned "default", that was treated as the passthrough. I do not wish to rely on such convention anymore, need a way to explicitly label a decision as passthrough or garbage, and perhaps even allow multiple passthrough variants too.
Naturally, output() will then follow: fn output(request: Request, decision: Decision) -> Result[Response, Report].
@cwebber me: "why isn't this link Christine posted ever openi-... oooooh, right. *Christine* posted it..."
Palantir exec nominated to lead CISA
https://therecord.media/michael-losapio-cisa-director-nomination
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What are you thoughts about (semi-) centralized moderation? (Updated with a more decentralized idea)
As the Fediverse grows, the amount and frequency of harmful spam also increases. The feudalistic structure of the network creates notable moderation overhead as every instance admin has to ban offending remote accounts and remove their content themselves, if the originating instance does not act quick enough or such delete actions are not federated properly.
An example (and my motivation for this post) are reports from the last days about accounts which post CSAM content. This is especially problematic, as media content gets duplicated to every receiving instance.
The following idea came to my mind: A software which sits on top of Activity Pub and creates a kind of court. Instances of this software are independent courts. All users can elect admins / mods of their home instance as judge. Everyone can post a case via normal Fedi posts to the court and the elected judges give a verdict via majority vote (votes are also normal Fedi comments with special formatted content). Once a case has a verdict, all instances should immediately apply the decided action against the offending content / account. This can be done via a bot which is set as an instance moderator and follows the published verdicts of a court instance the local admin trusts.
This way swift action can be applied through all instances which follow the court at once. By having periodic elections it is kept democratic.
And the task of the court is to defend universal rules all following instances agree on. Not to handle politics between instances.
What are you thoughts on this matter? Or do other approaches to solve this issue already exist?
Update:
From this came the idea that instances can follow mod actions of other instances and apply them if x% of other instances did the same.
I think this is an interesting approach which might be better than my proposal. So I would like to hear your thoughts about this too.
Not from the onion:
The Bat Yam Municipality has filed a 250 million shekel lawsuit against Iran in an Israeli court.
Even when the Patent Office agrees to hear a patent challenge, the current director can reverse that decision months later. That’s not a fair way to run a patent review system. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/why-fewer-people-are-challenging-bad-patents
RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117592857554097967
I mean. You can also just not use LLMs.
Insane to me how many people think open-weight models like Qwen just come out of thin air:
Absolute L take from 404 Media
Some jurors for the awards at the upcoming Indie Games Festival have taken a hard line against usage of AI in making games, and Big Walk, made by House House, has become the focus of the conversation. Here’s @span Kotaku with the details and their thoughts. What do you think? Choose as many as you like, since this is a nuanced issue.
@TechDesk @Kotaku
If AI is used to audit the code architecture or to review code but every complain is checked and implemented by a developer I think it's fine.
This does improve the code quality by checking edge cases but AI should never write code by its own.
Using AI to get a rough idea for an algorithm is also fine to me if the implementation is adapted to the project by a developer.
Asset generation or automated code generation is not okay to me.
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@CCC was hat der CCC mit dem Nahostkonflikt zu tun?
At the end of a long career as a foundryman, my dad was a consultant who turned up to fix issues that had stumped the local engineers regarding pressure diecasting etc.
He tells the story of spending a day or two looking at the problem and then using a piece of chalk to draw an X where they needed to rework the cooling pipes in a specific mould.
After invoicing for the consultation, they asked for an itemised bill. Which he provided:
$1 - piece of chalk.
$5999 - knowing where to draw the cross.
@shivoa I'm a gardener growing flowers. All the work tasks we do can be taught in 5 minutes.
Knowing what to do when is all we do in the three year apprenticeship and the one year master program.
Uyghur lamb at Sichuan Fusion, El Cerrito, CA, USA
@tek #ThatAmericanMoment when you just need to flit about your states and cities to explore authentic world cuisine and cultures rather than having to get grilled for visa interviews...which i think anyways all countries are like "come come bring dollars!"
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